Not everyone agrees fetus is a living being

Jonah Goldberg's recent column, "To women's health, claimed that abortion rights do not equate to women's health; that there are many other issues challenging women's health beyond their right to and need for abortion services. That is certainly true. Yet, Goldberg dismisses women's rights to abortion, claiming that they "have no unfettered right to harm someone else." That statement assumes that that "someone" is an unborn fetus and that it's standing as a living being is a settled question, which it most certainly is not. He ignores the fact that Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country are endeavoring to restrict women's rights to abortion.

Through myriad means, Republican legislators are feverishly proposing draconian laws pertaining to abortion clinics, which create standards impossible to meet, thereby forcing most, if not all, such clinics to close their doors. With the defunding of Planned Parenthood and the forced closure of clinics, other women's health services, which Goldberg seemed so concerned about, are also being denied. He states, "Even the most ardent pro-life activist readily concedes there are instances when an abortion is in the interest of the mother's health." That is by no means true. Many pro-lifers deny that there is any justification for a woman having an abortion.

Goldberg is just another sanctimonious and condescending conservative male who believes he knows best what women do and don't need.